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ALLIED ARTISTS PICTURES CORP. v. RHODES

No. C-2-78-1031.

496 F.Supp. 408 (1980)

ALLIED ARTISTS PICTURES CORP., Avco Embassy Pictures Corp., Buena Vista Distribution Co., Inc., Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Inc., Paramount Pictures Corp., Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., United Artists Corp., Universal Pictures Division of Universal City Studios, Inc., Universal Film Exchanges, Inc., Warner Bros., Inc., and Warner Bros. Distributing Corp., Plaintiffs, v. James A. RHODES, Governor, State of Ohio; Ted W. Brown, Secretary of State of Ohio; Vernal G. Riffe, Jr., Speaker of House of Representatives; and Richard F. Celeste, Lt. Governor, Ohio Senate, Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. Ohio, E. D.

July 10, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Earl F. Morris, Harry Wright, Columbus, Ohio, Alan Dershowitz, Cambridge, Mass., Louis Nizer, Barbara Scott, William Nix, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Richard Firestone, Paul Eklund, Eugene McShane, Asst. Attys. Gen., State of Ohio, Columbus, Ohio, for defendants.

OPINION

DUNCAN, District Judge.

"Blind bidding" is a term used in the motion picture industry to describe the licensing of a motion picture to a theater owner without the owner's first viewing the picture. Blind bidding and other practices by which motion picture producers and distributors license their product to exhibitors have been controversial and subject to varying degrees of governmental scrutiny at least...

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